History 120 Powell Chapter 4

The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called

Arminianism

Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.

False

During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires

False

Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junipero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.

False

The eighteenth century was the height of the Atlantic slave trade, a commerce increasingly dominated by Spanish merchants and ships

False

The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the

French Revolution

During Pontiac's Rebellion, Neolin, the prophet, asserted all except

Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies

The only unicameral legislature in the colonies was in Pennsylvania, largely controlled for much of the eighteenth century by

Quaker merchants

The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is most closely related to what political idea?

Republicanism

This was the first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population

South Carolina

Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.

Task

Regarding slavery, which of the following statements is not true?

The Middle Colonies needed many slaves because large farms predominated

According to the English minister George Whitefield, people could participate in their own salvation through their own actions; they were not, as predominant Protestant religions had traditionally held, unable to affect their destiny.

True

Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.

True

By the 1700s, the population of Spanish North America was small, consisting of a few, isolated urban clusters in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico

True

Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.

True

In Jonathan Edward's view, what was a sinner's only hope?

a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians

During the eighteenth century, more than half the Africans shipped to the New World as slaves were

carried on British vessel

Under the liberalism idea, the "social contract" extorted that

men retain their natural rights, as they predated the establishment of political authority

The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called

presidios

The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called

the Enlightenment

The agreement that ended the Seven Year's War was called

the Peace of Paris

All of the following contributed to the devastation of Indian society in the present-day California area except

the introduction of British animals

By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the

tobacco plantation system

The Great Awakening occurred as many ministers were concerned with

westward expansion